Privacy Policy, effective 2024-Dec-23
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.askingdentists.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Like most websites, the web server collects information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, operating system, visitor country, web requests made, referring website and the date and time of access. The purpose of collecting this information is to maintain and monitor the website's proper functioning and security.
This site uses Cloudflare Inc.'s CDN, a website security and infrastructure service that operates between this website and visitors to this website. In the process, personal information (such as IP addresses) may be sent to Cloudflare. For more information please refer to Cloudflare's privacy policy (https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/), cookie policy (https://www.cloudflare.com/cookie-policy/) and data processing addendum (https://www.cloudflare.com/media/pdf/cloudflare-customer-dpa.pdf).
Certain visitors to www.askingdentists.com choose to interact with www.askingdentists.com in ways that require www.askingdentists.com to gather personally-identifying information. Visitors who sign up for the email newsletter provide an email address. www.askingdentists.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with www.askingdentists.com. www.askingdentists.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
If you have supplied your email address, www.askingdentists.com may occasionally send you an email to keep you up to date with what’s going on with www.askingdentists.com. www.askingdentists.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Measures taken in the Wordpress software used for this site to protect your privacy include using self-hosted fonts instead of loading them from a third party, disabling Gravatar to prevent associated requests to third party domains, disabling third-party emoji fetching and doing our best to use links in place of embedded third-party media (e.g. Youtube videos).
From time to time, www.askingdentists.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. www.askingdentists.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using www.askingdentists.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of www.askingdentists.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
This site uses Cloudflare Inc.'s CDN, a website security and infrastructure service that operates between this website and visitors to this website. Depending on the automated threat assessment of the visitor and hosting server status, cookies may be used for the purposes of detecting malicious visitors or serving up an archived version of an offline page (more info at https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-Understanding-the-Cloudflare-Cookies). Visitors detected as being a possible security threat (false positives can and do occur as it is automated) will be presented with a verification page to prove they are human, which contains an hCaptcha CAPTCHA form by Intuition Machines Inc and will connect to https://assets.hcaptcha.com - hCaptcha's privacy policy is located at https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy/. For more information about Cloudflare please refer to Cloudflare's privacy policy (https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/), cookie policy (https://www.cloudflare.com/cookie-policy/) and data processing addendum (https://www.cloudflare.com/media/pdf/cloudflare-customer-dpa.pdf).
(Everything below this line in this section refers to services provided by Google - you can learn more about Google's privacy policies and terms at https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/terms)
This site uses the Google Custom Search Engine which connects to Google's servers, sends entered search queries to Google and places functional third-party cookies.
This page uses Google's reCAPTCHA service to prevent spam, which uses cookies and sends personally identifiable information such as IP address and hardware/software information to Google (used for improving reCAPTCHA and for general security purposes, not for personalized advertising by Google.
This site uses Google Adsense. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads. Ads may be based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites - google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to this site's visitors based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet. Cookies are also used for ad frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting and to combat fraud and abuse. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting https://www.google.com/settings/ads and learn more at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Google Adsense ads on this site may also serve ads from third party vendors or ad networks (you can view them at https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/94149) and you can opt out of vendor's use of cookies for interest based advertising by visiting their websites (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability) - you can also opt out of some third-party vendors' uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting http://www.aboutads.info (http://www.youronlinechoices.eu may also be useful for EU/EEA visitors).
For users in Brazil, user data is only shared with LGPD-approved Ad Technology Providers - you can visit https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9931967 to see a list of them with links to their privacy policies.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
You may have certain rights under data protection law in relation to the personal information we hold about you (subject to any exemptions provided by the law) including the rights to:
- know what personal information is collected
- know if personal data is sold or shared and to whom
- request a copy of personal information we hold about you
- ask that we update the personal information we hold about you, or independently correct such personal information that you think is incorrect or incomplete
- ask that we delete personal information that we hold about you from live systems or that we limit our use and processing of your personal data
- object to our processing of your personal information
- withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information (to the extent such processing is based on consent and consent is the only permissible basis for processing).
- equal service for visitors who exercise their privacy rights
You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you aren’t able to do that, or you would like to contact us about one of the other rights, scroll down to "Our contact information" for information on how to reach us. We must be able to reasonably verify that the request is being made by you or an authorized representative, and the request must be contain sufficient detail for us to properly understand and respond to it.
Do Not Track (DNT)
www.askingdentists.com does not respond to the Do Not Track (DNT) signal as we do not track users in the first place. Third party services used on the site (such as Google Ads and the Google Custom Search Engine box) may respond differently.
Our contact information
You can contact us with any privacy-related concerns at [email protected].
Although most changes are likely to be minor, www.askingdentists.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in www.askingdentists.com’s sole discretion. www.askingdentists.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
(Some parts of this privacy policy are adapted from https://automattic.com/privacy/, which is available under the license viewable at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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